I was just noticing it today with "Tears of a Clown": "Don't let my show convince you /that I've been happy since you /decided to go." The music signals a break as marked, but the meaning propels us past the rhyming words in one continuous unit.
The best (most sustained and exuberant) example I know is JRRT's "Errantry" poem, which exists in several versions. Here's a snippet:
He caught her in bewilderment(Of course one of my all-time favorite rhymes is tchotchkes with watch, please. But that's more conventionally placed in the line so it doesn't count here.)
with filament of spider-thread;
he made her soft pavilions
of lilies, and a bridal bed
of flowers and of thistle-down
to nestle down and rest her in;
and silken webs of filmy white
and silver light he dressed her in.
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